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Article: The Wine Guide; Champagne and sparkling wine: Truce for the holidays.(Brief Article)
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- December 1, 2001
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* As far as I can tell, there are two kinds of people in the world: those who drink sparkling wine pretty much all the time because there's nothing else quite as refreshing and snappy, and those who drink it now--at holiday time--because it's simply more festive, more celebratory than anything else.
The division between camp #1 and camp #2 has very little to do with money by the way. It's just not true that bubbles always cost a lot. Indeed, one of the more remarkable facts about wine prices these days is that in a single store you can find dozens of mediocre Chardonnays priced at $20 or more sitting next to terrific sparklers that cost less than $15, even though ...